Carl Icahn lays out 5-point game plan for Yahoo — After a one-day lull in the Yahoo-Icahn war of words, billionaire investor Carl Icahn on Friday listed his five-step game plan for the company, should his dissident slate of directors succeed in unseating Yahoo's current board at the August 1 shareholder meeting.

Icahn Letter to Yahoo Chairman — Below is the text of a letter sent by investor Carl Icahn to Yahoo Inc. Chairman Roy Bostock. The letter is dated June 6, 2008. — Dear Roy: — While you may take issue with the content of my letter, I take issue with your oversight of Yahoo! Again …

What's in the Box? The 3G iPhone Lands Down Under — What's in the Box? — The 3G iPhone Lands Down Under? — Late yesterday afternoon MacTalk received the above photo from a very reliable source who can not be named for obvious reasons (fear of assassination by the Apple Secret Police I presume).

Introducing Gmail Labs — We have a lot of ideas for Gmail — many come as suggestions from Gmail users, many come from people here at Google. But there's only so much we can do at any one time. — People often ask how we decide what to build next. It's usually a mix of factors …

Gmail Gets 13 Experimental New Features Tonight — Note: This was originally posted on Thursday evening, June 5th. Several users already have these features enabled in their account. — Starting at 6PM Pacific Time tonight, Google will start rolling out Gmail Labs …

Intel Facing Antitrust Investigation — WASHINGTON — The Federal Trade Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation of Intel, the world's largest maker of computer microprocessors, for anticompetitive conduct, government officials and lawyers involved in the proceeding said Friday.

Intel Statement on U.S. Federal Trade Commission — SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 6, 2008 - Intel Corporation today issued the following statement in response to the issuance of a subpoena from the United States Federal Trade Commission (U.S. FTC): — On June 4 the U.S. FTC served a subpoena related …

Bits, Bands and Books — Do you remember what it was like back in the old days when we had a New Economy? In the 1990s, jobs were abundant, oil was cheap and information technology was about to change everything. — Then the technology bubble popped. Many highly touted New Economy companies …

Microsoft's Ballmer on Yahoo and the Future — In an animated discussion with Washington Post editors and reporters yesterday, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer offered his far-ranging views of upcoming changes in technology and the media. Among other things, he confirmed …

Hey Firefox - Let Us Pick Our Own Search Engine! — So Firefox 3 has a new release candidate making news, suggesting that the browser is nearly done. May I suggest that the browser is nowhere near being done until the Mozilla Foundation drops its favoritism to Google and allow users to pick their own default search engine?

Microsoft packs 36 iPhone digs into one 7-paragraph letter — It's classic Microsoft. — On Thursday, two business days before Apple's (AAPL) World Wide Developers Conference, Redmond sent a shot across Cupertino's bow with a letter to Microsoft's (MSFT) Windows Mobile partners — with copies to the press.

Amazon suffers U.S. outage on Friday — Amazon.com has been inaccessible to many U.S. visitors since at least 10:30 a.m. PDT on Friday. — “Http/1.1 Service Unavailable” was the message that appeared when Amazon customers across the country attempted to log on.

The growing importance of Design — It's happening slowly, but surely. Design is becoming news. — Take the example of Facebook's recently redesigned Profile pages. Huge news both for the users of the site as well as the developers Facebook is trying to court.